EcoFlora - Festuca filiformis

Festuca filiformis Pourr.
Family: Poaceae Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue [Festuca capillata Lam., more]	Gleason & Cronquist Indiana Flora Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Lvs mostly more than half as long as the stems, scabrous, delicately wiry-capillary, 0.3-0.6 mm wide, with 3 large and 0-4 small veins but only one distinct rib, the sclerenchyma forming a ±continuous ring; infl very slender; spikelets small, the first glume 1.1-2.1 mm, the second 1.8-3 mm, the lemmas mostly 2.3-4 mm and awnless; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm; 2n=14, 28; otherwise much like spp. 8-10. A European weed intr. into lawns and waste places from Nf. to N.C., Ill., and Minn. (F. tenuifolia; F. capillata; F. ovina var. c.) Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission. From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam I have a letter from A. A. Hansen who says this species is established in the vicinity of Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. ...... Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = null, non-native Wetland Indicator Status: N/A
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